The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 1044

SUNDAY MARCH 25 1990 THE MIAMI HERALD INTERNATIONAL EDITION I Nasty as they wanna be? He says no way RAP: ME SO HORRIFIED have felt over the past three years God's pleasure in my efforts on behalf of children JACK THOMPSON Lawyer points path to salvation THOMPSON FROM 11C ture" Second his free representation of Iliana Fuster in her 1986 divorce from Frank Fuster who was convicted in 1985 in the Country Walk child molestation case That case showed Thompson causal nexus between pornography and sexual he says Campbell aka Luke Skyywalker is mentally molesting children just as surely as Frank Fuster did in the physical sense and laughing about it and making millions of dollars doing But if Thompson reaches heaven this way he will have gone through hell to get there THE FEUD WITH 2 LIVE CREW As Nasty as They Wanna Be is nasty all right Its now-famous song Me So Horny features such lyrics as: can say desperate even call me perverted But you say a dog when I leave you ed and Thompson is horrified society that allows this material is a society that take seriously the brutalization rape and even murder of women" Thompson fears for the soul of Crew mastermind Luther Campbell who sings and produces records under the name of Luke Skyywalker Thompson says requested the opportunity through an intermediary to sit down with Luther and share with him the claims of Christ so that together we might try and help rather than hurt the Replies Skyywalker: save my soul if he tried My soul is already as saved as gonna THE FEUD WITH NEIL ROGERS feud with Rogers began in 1987 when Rogers was with WINZ then exploded in 1988 after Rogers went to WIOD Thompson like the songs Rogers played such songs as Boys Want Sex in the Morning The A-hole Song The Butch Beer Commercial Rogers also would lampoon the elderly in Hallandale accusing them of stealing Sweet Low advocating using them instead of animals in medical experiments when Thompson called Rogers a Hitler and demanded that Reno prosecute him Said Rogers: obviously is satire have to be a moron to interpret it any other He called Thompson a fanatic who has taken it upon himself to dictate morality for this community" At about the same time FCC license was up for renewal Thompson petitioned And in an unexpected finding the FCC fined WIOD $10000 for broadcasting some of songs THE FEUD WITH RENO PARTI Thompson who get Reno to prosecute Rogers decided to run against her for state attorney in 1988 On Sept 8 the two were to appear together at a campaign rally at North Beach Elementary School As they waited to go on Thompson handed Reno a letter giving her four days to check off a box in the statement: Janet Reno am homosexual bisexual heterosexual" The letter went on: you do not respond by that date then you will be deemed to have checked one of the first two After reading the letter Reno says she put a gentle hand on shoulder Thompson says she was rough an enraged schoolmarm both They agree she told him she was interested only in virile men He remembers that she added why not attracted to Reno says she recall that Thompson filed a battery charge against Reno with Miami Beach police Reno investigate herself so Gov Bob Martinez appointed Marshall King Hall deputy to West Coast area State Attorney Joseph to do it report: criminal battery took place and Mr Thompson did this as a political ploy" At the same time Reno asked that a neutral outside investigator be appointed to investigate Thompson's myriad of charges against Rogers i Hall got that assignment too His conclusion: criminal violations Mr Thompson appears to have an obsessional hatred of Mr Neil Rogers and his radio show" THE FEUD WITH RENO PART 2 On Jan 1 of this year Thompson wrote to Reno demanding that she prosecute Luke Skyywalker for obscenity She On Jan 8 he wrote to Pete Dunbar general counsel to Martinez demanding has held up well under the strain of crusade far as I know very Thompson say how much of his time he spends on his crusade against Rogers and dirty music although he points out that some of it is spent defending himself not attacking others He say how much of a financial sacrifice it has been "I never had to serve in the armed forces so I have chosen to look at the past 2Vz years as service to my community and country Service is something people expect to be paid DUELING PSYCHOLOGISTS From 1987 through 1989 the Thompson-Rogers feud made its way in and out of state and federal courts Thompson sued Rogers for harassment and invasion of privacy Rogers sued Thompson for libel WIOD sued Thompson for interfering with business Trial documents and interviews with principals tell what battles they were Thompson charged he was harassed by radio listeners lunatic Arthur Rice attorney in one of the suits calls them In other suits Thompson acted as his own attorney Rice says Rogers gave out telephone number over the air and Thompson got a hail of harassing phone calls screaming insults ordering him pizzas making appointments for him with urologists and proctologists some even threatening him WIOD for its part charged that Thompson harassed and potential guests for show so that they would not appear It also charged that Thompson tried to persuade almost 100 WIOD advertisers to stop advertising It said a dozen or more did stop including such biggies as Southern Bell Glendale Federal Savings and Loan Burdmes WCIX-TV WTVJ-TV and Metrozoo Says Rice Thompson's attorney: what the Scriptures Thompson quickly moved into prestigious legal jobs He was in-house counsel for The Babcock Co a real estate development firm was very conservative heavily involved in church says former Babcock president and onetime Dade County manager Ray Goode have predicted he would go as far as he has on those issues and subject himself to the personal harassment sure In 1982 Thompson became a junior partner in Blackwell Walker among his clients was South Miami Hospital He left that job over difference in philosophy" says the Willis Flick was the Flick says decided he wanted to tell me off We parted Thompson says he told Flick the older lawyers in the firm giving proper consideration to younger lawyers fired me shortly thereafter I hold any grudges I have the highest respect for Willis For a year in the mid-1980s Thompson worked as a fund-raiser for Logoi (Greek for a Miami-based ministry that trains pastors for service in Latin America His salary was only $20000 terminated says Logoi president Les Thompson problem with Jack is a personality problem extremely opinionated and inflexible He may be 100 percent in the right but the way he approaches it makes him Today Thompson practices law alone working out of his Coral Gables home a two-bedroom two-bath house built in 1926 which he and his wife Patricia bought in 1980 for $125000 Thompson speaks little of his personal life His wife declined to be interviewed People who know him socially find him pleasant absolutely a delight he has a keen sense of says Bill Quesenberry a neighbor and occasional golf partner at the Key Bis-cayne Biltmore and Riviera courses He says wife that the governor appoint a special prosecutor Thompson contended that Reno prosecuting for two reasons: First he alleged a conflict of interest Skyywalker last year produced a rap song titled Janet Reno by a group called Anquette that praises efforts to collect child support from deadbeat fathers To quote the song: chased you down to 15th Avenue you tried to hide your trail She found your and locked you up and now who post no bail?" To quote Reno the state attorney: people think the song criticizes me I understand the lyrics In any case they have no influence on 1 second reason: rumors are that Janet Reno is a closeted lesbian" Janet Reno is a pervert Governor" he wrote to Martinez why would anyone expect her to prosecute pomographers peddling perversion to Replies Reno: only rumors heard are ones circulated To address it specifically I am not a lesbian I am attracted to strong brave rational and intelligent Thompson in a flurry of letters to The Herald since January wrote this on March 15 to support his point: Louis St Laurent told me of Janet meeting with Iliana Fuster if you can imagine this and the belief he and certain of the parents tragically scarred by the Country Walk disaster had that Reno was interested in a sexual liaison with Iliana who had pleaded guilty to sexual battery and lewd assault in the child abuse case St Laurent claims Reno is a Replies St Laurent a leader of Country Walk parents during the Fuster case: a first-class lie I never made that He says he spoke briefly with Thompson then refused to return his calls I think he was all there" Thompson says St Laurent has turned against him because he represented Iliana Fuster handle that since he if thinks that makes me the aider and abetter of child molestation And this guy thinks not wrapped too TO BE BORN AGAIN Thompson born July 25 1951 grew up around Cleveland and Akron Ohio He attended Baptist Methodist and Congregational churches but he was off by all the stuff that had been superimposed upon the Christian faith that obscured for me what the real Christian faith Still his fight against evil began early In high school in the Akron suburb of Cuyahoga Falls his fellow students elected him student mayor for the day He surprised a city council meeting by proposing a resolution asking adults in the community particularly real estate agents to end segregation life was repeatedly threatened subsequent to After graduating in 1973 from Denison University in Granville Ohio he went to law school at Vanderbilt where he met his wife-to-be Patricia also now a lawyer They moved to Miami where he worked as the assistant golf pro at the Ocean Reef resort while studying for the Florida Bar exam In 1976 he joined the Key Bis-cayne Presbyterian Church and met Pastor Steve Brown went in and chatted with him and he suggested I read Mere Christianity by CS Thompson became a born-again Christian The full belief in Jesus as Savior is crucial Thompson says Does he believe that Jews Moslems and others who do not hold that belief are condemned to hell? urge advertisers not to advertise He contacted them with the Rice proudly shows one letter in which the Florida Citrus Department canceled its ads telling WIOD: aware you allow smut" At one hearing lawyer Norman Kent charged that Thompson had almost hit Rogers with his car Thompson denied it Then Miami psychologist David Rothen-berg who said he had not interviewed Thompson but had studied 300 to 400 letters Thompson wrote over the course of the lawsuits testified that Thompson was a danger to Rogers felt I had a legal responsibility as well as a professional one to warn his attorney that I felt Mr life was at risk I believe Thomp- son is severely disturbed and his capacity for control is Thompson acting as his own attorney cross-examined Rothen-berg: Thompson: "Doctor why you put a name on what you think my dysfunction Rothenberg: not ready to do that because I have enough information to make a definite diagnosis only to warn of a clear and present danger" Thompson: you have enough information to make a definite diagnosis but you have enough information to say a threat to Neil Rothenberg: Thompson says he never threatened anyone with physical harm John Longino now representing Thompson in another matter snorts: can get a psychologist to testify to anything you But Dade Circuit Judge Philip Bloom ordered Thompson to keep his distance from Rogers Specifically Thompson was barred from coming within 500 yards of the radio host Thompson then asked Circuit Judge Richard Feder to overturn order He produced an affidavit from his own psychiatrist Edward Georgia of Highland Park Hospital that pronounced Thompson completely sane Feder refused to vacate the injunction In November 1989 after 28 months of battle the two sides called a truce In a settlement signed by Circuit Judge Frederick Barad Rogers agreed not to seek any further contact with Thompson Thompson agreed among other things: Not to contact WIOD advertisers or talk show guests Not to say anything about Rogers good or bad to anyone but his wife Not to contact Rogers or any other station employee Thompson and his wife were banned from coming closer than 500 yards from the WIOD studios (His wife obtained specific permission to drive past the station on North Bay Causeway on her way elsewhere) To provide an opinion by a psychiatrist that he was mentally competent to understand and carry out the agreement Thompson then submitted a letter from Georgia the psychiatrist that said Thompson was sane and not in any way whatsoever impaired mentally or psychiatrically various allegations by WIOD-AM Neil Rogers a special prosecutor and others that he has or PLEASESEE THOMPSON 5H jngr TARGETS Jack Thompson has made a crusade of fighting the forces of evil Among its representatives he believes are rapper Luther Campbell (aka Luke Skyywalker) left outrageous radio host Neil Rogers and Dade State Attorney Janet Reno.